Gear We Seriously Test: These Crazy Looking Fins Were Designed to Give You A Spring in Your Surf

For those looking for a reco, I’d say for the average surfer there seems to be a noticeable difference between standard fins and S-Wings on a shortboard. For longboards, it seems to depend on how much you’re redirecting and driving to get speed.

I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention that there are a handful of passionate, inventive folks that are doing some incredible things with fin design in addition to a company out of the Southwest of France called S-Wings (AU Fins and the Quantum Fin are just a few that come to mind), but the fact remains surfing has a certain resistance to these sorts of outside the box innovations.